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The Left’s corruption of language is intentional

By Becket Adams
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The Left’s corruption of language is intentional

Opinion
The Left’s corruption of language is intentional
By
Becket Adams, Contributor


March 11, 2023 06:00 AM
Opinion
The Left’s corruption of language is intentional
By
Becket Adams, Contributor


March 11, 2023 06:00 AM

Merriam Webster Word of the Year

This Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, photo taken in New York shows the word feminism listed in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster has revealed “feminism” as its word of the year for 2017 on Tuesday, Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

In discussions of the decadeslong war on the English language, invocations of
George Orwell’
s 1984 are plentiful. This is a mistake. The go-to invocation should be his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language. It’s a more germane, and decidedly less cliche, point of reference insofar as the topic of acceptable public discourse is concerned.

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